Lamentations 3:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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  • Lam 3:5 : 5 He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
  • Lam 3:15 : 15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
  • Neh 9:32 : 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy, do not let all the hardship seem little before You that has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our forefathers, and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?
  • Ps 89:50 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
  • Ps 132:1 : 1 A Song of Ascents. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

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  • Lam 3:20-21
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    20My soul still remembers them and is humbled within me.

    21This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope.

  • Lam 3:14-18
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    14I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

    15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

    16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

    18And I said, My strength and my hope perished from the LORD.

  • 5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

  • 1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

  • Ps 69:20-21
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    20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

    21They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

  • 19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • 9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,

  • 21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 18He will not allow me to regain my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • 27My insides boiled and did not rest: the days of affliction confronted me.

  • 15Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

  • 13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

    21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 3The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • 24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 3I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

  • 18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • 19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain;

  • 17For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 18Look on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.

  • Lam 1:12-13
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    12Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 10And I said, This is my infirmity; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

  • 7I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

  • 1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 2Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

  • 20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • 26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

  • 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.

  • 4My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

  • 4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • 6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

  • 7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

  • 15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.